The piece says she died after a lengthy battle with emphysema but makes no mention of a surviving spouse or children.

Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

Not Scott, who had a family history of emphysema.

Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

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At the time of the interview, forty or fifty years later, she was dying of emphysema.

Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid’s Tale

It was a fine city in which to develop emphysema or lung cancer, and it was a hated city.

Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

She had diabetes and, as a lifelong smoker, the beginnings of emphysema, though again, neither of these conditions seemed life-threatening at present, and neither adequately explained what had happened.

Nicholas Sparks -- Nights in Rodanthe

Her father had already retired and had early-stage emphysema.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me

Tad began to gasp again — a harsh, rattling sound, like the breathing of an old man with emphysema.

Stephen King -- Cujo

He thought that perhaps this was her way of breathing, or that she had emphysema or belonged to a Hindu cult.

Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

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He had health problems from emphysema and a childhood bout with polio, but I had never anticipated him actually dying.